Discrimination? You decide.

I read a story about an older college student recently on the Yahoo Nontrad Group. He is going back to college to be a physical therapy assistant. Seems he was told he can't stay in the dormitory on campus at Louisiana College because he is too much older than the other students. He is 52.

Say what?? I am (cough, cough) close to that age too!


This sounds like discrimination to me. I sure hope that the school changes their mind soon. Or maybe it is just a misunderstanding.

I am going to see if he posts in the next week or so, then I think I should put this online again and see if anyone there or online can help.


I personally know of at least three or four other students who are older AND staying in college dorms. It's simply easier for them. AND they learned how to get along with the other students too.

So keep reading here - - I plan to keep everyone informed on how this is going for SURE.



Join the Yahoo Nontrad group and learn more.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Non-trads/

Learn more:
Age discrimination - what is it?

Age discrimination and prejudice (on Wikipedia)

Anyone know of some other good sites?

Great news from the U.S. House! (Brush up on literary skills...)

There is super great news that the House of Representatives has passed a new bill which includes money for nontraditional students going back to (high) school who need to take courses in basic literary skills. This could help lots of people qualify to apply to trade school or college afterwards.

This is news that a lot of people are going to be glad about.


I found out about it at Deb's Continuing Education Blog here:
House passes bill appropriating money...


She goes on to say that this bill could be funding GED grants in your area soon. The money is earmarked for basic literary skills for over three million adults.

Thanks for the great news, Deb!

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More links for Nontrads:

The Nontraditional Student site
The Nontrad Yahoo group

PS Thanks to "anonymous" who helped me re-word the first part of this post. I appreciate that!

I put some new Nontrad group information on the Nontrad site today

 I put some new group information on some State pages today on the Nontraditional Student site.



Pages with new information are: Illinois, Oregon, Other Places, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana.

I hope to be able to completely redo these pages soon, too.

Here are some other nontraditional student links I have edited recently too:
The Twitter Nontrads pagehttp://www.squidoo.com/Making-Friends-at-College-for-Nontrads
The Nontrad Student website
The Squidoo Nontrads page - Be a Nontrad
The Squidoo Nontrads Friends page - Making Friends at College for Nontrads

Nontrads on Hub Pages

Why FastWeb is a great scholarship site

About FastWeb Scholarship search site: (plus FAFSA and the Nontrads Scholarship pages)


Fastweb, a major online scholarship search service, gets great reviews, because:

#1. It is free,
#2. It does the searching for you, and
#3. It emails you your results.

They have a huge database of scholarships. You just register for free, and they do the rest. They also have some great articles on the bottom of their first page.

Of course, don't forget about FAFSA, short for Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which also has a database of scholarships and grants. 

Here are the links:
Fastweb, Scholarships, Financial Aid, Student Loans and Colleges
FAFSA - the official Government student aid site

And (shameless plug!) the Nontrad Scholarship pages have even more links.
Nontrad Scholarship Page One
Nontrad Scholarship Page Two

3 Nontrad Networks for social networking

Three great 

nontraditional student 

social networks:

A nontraditional student group I was a member of has moved to Ning. Here is the new address:
Return to College


It is a great group. We are getting lots of members each day.


There is another group just for nontraditional students too on Ning. It is here:
http://maturestudent.ning.com/


This is a growing group as well, and I am a member there too.


I am the Moderator at a Yahoo group that is also a social networking site. The address is:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Non-trads/

Feel free to join all of these! See you there.